Commodities firms suffer after grim year

From Independent: Smaller companies across the commodities sectors are facing a difficult new year as capital remains hard to come by and prices show little sign of resurgence.

Ernst & Young’s index of top 20 mining companies on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) plummeted by 77 per cent over the course of the year, as March’s record high was more than cancelled out by an all-time low in November…… Full Article: Source